This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee of Russia.

“According to preliminary data, as a result of a fire in two apartments in a five-story building in Makhachkala, five were killed,” the agency's source said.

It is noted that among the victims one adult woman and four children.

Earlier it was reported that two children and one teenager died in a fire in an apartment of a five-story building in Makhachkala.